Animal husbandry – Animal controlling or handling – Animal relocating – loading or unloading
Patent
1992-10-14
1994-07-05
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Animal controlling or handling
Animal relocating, loading or unloading
A01K 2900
Patent
active
053258207
ABSTRACT:
A poultry harvester capable of capturing poultry on a generally horizontal plane, such as the floor of a poultry house, and transferring a predetermined number of captured poultry to a compartment of a cage having a plurality of compartments. A capturing mechanism captures the poultry and provides it to a conveying mechanism for conveying the captured poultry. A counting mechanism counts the captured poultry. A depositing mechanism deposits the conveyed poultry into each of the compartments of the cage under the control of a CPU responsive to the counting mechanism. The CPU controls the depositing mechanism to deposit in each of the compartments the predetermined number of poultry as counted by the counting mechanism. A method for harvesting poultry is also disclosed.
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Briggs Douglas V.
Stevens George C.
American Calan, Inc.
Swiatek Robert P.
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